Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽車).

  A small car can hold(容納)four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded(擁擠). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel. They could all gavel together. Mr. Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. The sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home the suitcases are brought into the box behind the car, thus they can carry their grandparents. Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays, when a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular, In America there are many parks for motor homes.

(1) From the passage, a van is also called ________.

[  ]

Aa motor car

Ba motor home

Ca motorbike

(2) Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they ________.

[  ]

Asold their old house

Bmoved to their grandparents’ house

Csold their second car

(3) A motor home is usually owned by a family with ________.

[  ]

Aa baby

Bmuch money

Cmore than two children

(4) Americans usually use motor homer ________

[  ]

Ato gavel with all the family members of holiday

Bto do some shopping with all the family members

Cto visit their grandparents at weekends

(5) Motor homes have become popular because ________.

[  ]

Athey can take people to another city when people are free

Bthey can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays

Csome people think motor homes are cheap

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